I chose "Vomit on occasion but NEVER fear it," because ultimately, that would improve my life by so much. However, I definitely do NOT put as much energy into getting over the phobia as I should,...

Glad to hear someone else who uses Pepto. I feel like a lot of people on here either forget about it or just choose not to use it, but man, it works wonders for me.

Once when I was sitting in high school health class, my teacher showed us an episode of MTV's "True Life" about OCD. It didn't directly address emet, but one of the girls that they followed had OCD...

That is actually exactly what I try to tell myself when I am freaking out about v*. It doesn't always work, but the more I remind myself, the more it helps.



Yes, I /always/ examine my food...

I'm in college, but I also have some part time jobs. I've been employed as a waitress, an ice cream scooper, a cashier in a bookstore, a cashier in a pet store, and a greeter at an art museum (not...

Other: Doxylamine (Unisom), ginger supplements, pepto bismol

I was briefly but I quit. It wasn't helping me. I didn't like the therapist's approach, and I think he misdiagnosed me as having panic disorder / agoraphobia, which I feel is not the case. It wasn't...

Most ginger ale on the market now actually contains no ginger, so if you're trying to help your stomach, a supplement or straight ginger will probably be best.

Ginger ale kind of tastes like...

I was attending therapy at my university's health center. It is free, but the services showed up on my account and my mom asked about it. I figured I may as well just tell her. It went well, and she...

Usually I just read and reply, but sometimes I create new topics too. I chose "other" because I do all of the above.

I'd wear a diaper in public. Over my pants, for all to see, for months and months. Blah.

LOL, what an unusual headline. I would certainly care more about a norovirus index than I do about the UV index!

Those are some strange natural remedies that they suggest for upset stomach :\ I am somewhat well read on herbal medicine, and the most common things that I see for n*, v*, indigestion, etc. are...

Generally I usually only swim in the indoor pool at my university. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I feel like the less little kids the better. So many summers when I was a kid I got kicked out of...

Never had a problem with fast foods. Generally fast food places are places I consider safe because the amount of instructions they give their workers are pretty much fool proof. I had a lot of...

Both times that I have had fp*, I have had it 9 hours after eating. I know it was fp* because the symptoms came and went fairly quickly, and people who ate the same food felt similarly (people who...

I love swimming, but I have heard some pool horror stories about viruses residing in them when the chlorine is not as expected. Personally, I still use them and I have not yet had a problem (knock on...

I technically am average weight, but I am very close to being underweight. My BMI is 19%.

Usually I sleep alone in a double bed (at home, at my dorm I sleep in a dreaded twin bed), but sometimes my boyfriend stays over with me. When he sleeps in bed with me I usually end up on the right...